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  1. I too would love to hear more of Veronica's experiences with the early web. Unfortunately, I was too old to really get into it at the time as I had a wife, two kids and a crushing mortgage to take care of with a job that only allowed me (officially) to work with mundane office computer applications. Networking was "the dark arts" to which I was inexorably drawn.
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  2. I was old enough to get on-line when the kids and the missus had gone to bed. Too bad about work the next day. :(
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  3. I loved Perl, particulary Perl4 which I could get on a Windows machine with a single binary.
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  4. I was a corporate accountant since the late 1980's but I used Perl all the time for data manipulation. I built whole systems to handle reporting, data validation, and data conversion using Perl and loved it. Perl4 was a great language for this stuff as it was compact and I could get away with putting it on corporate systems as a single binary.
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  5.  @VeronicaExplains  I never tried machine language but I did write assembler to build a basic C library for a shareware Small-C compiler I got back in, I think, the early 90's. My crowning achievement was 'printf' with a variable number of parameters. I really felt good when that one worked.
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  6. We used to dream of 56K modems! My first modem was a Netcomm 14400 baud (14K) modem and I was lucky to get that. The naughty pictures came down really slowly in those days!
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